open-design
open-design
Catalogue stub — full platform: nexu-io/open-design
Install
Open Design is an application (a local daemon with a web UI, an optional desktop app and an MCP server), not a skill the skills CLI can install. Pick one route. Desktop app (macOS Apple Silicon or Intel, Windows x64): download it from open-design.ai or github.com/nexu-io/open-design/releases; no Node, pnpm or clone needed. From source (the only route on Linux; needs Node ~24 and pnpm 10.33.x): git clone https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git && cd open-design && corepack enable && pnpm install && pnpm tools-dev run web, then open the URL it prints (the repository is about 3.4 GB, so add --depth 1 to the clone to shorten the download). Inside your own coding agent: run od mcp install claude (use codex, cursor, opencode and so on for other agents) to connect it to Open Design over MCP; on a macOS desktop install od can resolve to /usr/bin/od (octal dump), so copy the snippet from Settings, MCP server in the app instead.
Heads-up
- Requires: a coding-agent CLI on your PATH (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent and others) or a BYOK model API key set in the app's Settings; Node ~24 and pnpm 10.33.x, only for the from-source route
- License: Apache-2.0
Invoke after install
Once an agent is connected over MCP, ask it in plain language, for example "Use open-design to generate a landing page with the Linear design system". In the desktop or web app, type a brief in the entry view, choose a runtime, a design template and a design system, and press Send. The daemon prints its local URL when it starts (from source, development ports are allocated dynamically).